Olfaction and Health

Herz, Rachel S.

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“…In recent years, the use of olfactory stimulation has advanced across multiple psychological and therapeutic applications, including cognitive and emotional interventions, pain tolerance, and immunological and cardiovascular markers of health (Herz, 2016; Herz, Schankler, & Beland, 2004; Herz & Engen, 1996; Kadohisa, 2013; Li, Moallem, Paller, & Gottfried, 2007; Prescott & Wilkie, 2007; Herz, 2022). Importantly, research suggests that strategic administration of pleasant olfactory stimuli may have beneficial effects on a range of outcomes, including improved memory performance (Herz, 2016), physical endurance (Raudenbush, Corley, & Eppich, 2001; Raudenbush, Meyer, & Eppich, 2002), and craving relief (Sayette, Marchetti, Herz, Martin, & Bowdring, 2019; Sayette & Parrott, 1999).…”

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Endogenous mood state and hedonic responses to pleasant odors

Marsh

Goodwin

Sayette

et al. 2023

Journal of Sensory Studies

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Responses to olfactory cues hold significant practical implications. For instance, emerging research reveals that strategic administration of pleasant olfactory cues can support positive health and well‐being outcomes. The underlying assumption is that pleasantness of odor perception stimulates various downstream benefits. However, olfactory responses vary across individuals and identifying who is most receptive to positive olfactory effects remains an important objective. One key factor may be the perceiver's mood. This study evaluated the association between natural mood state and subjective pleasantness ratings to normatively positive odors. In two experimental sessions, 232 participants with intact olfactory function rated their current mood and the pleasantness of six odorants. Across sessions, individuals with more positive baseline moods rated the odors as being more pleasant than did those with lower baseline mood scores. These findings suggest that individual differences in natural occurring mood should be considered in research examining the positive effects of olfactory cues. Practical Applications Pleasant olfactory cues show great potential for interventional research design within sensory science; however, there is little research examining how individual differences may impact the perception and effectiveness of odors. Our data demonstrate that baseline mood state is directly associated with the hedonic perception of pleasant odors. These findings illustrate that individual mood state may be essential to consider for basic research, applied, and consumer sensory panel testing of odor hedonics, and further suggest that inherent mood may influence the degree to which smelling normatively pleasant odors may enhance mental and physical health outcomes.

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Endogenous mood state and hedonic responses to pleasant odors

Marsh

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Sayette

et al. 2023

Journal of Sensory Studies

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“…The capacity of odors to modulate affective states and induce mood changes has been evidenced in a great number of studies (for reviews, see Herz, 2002Herz, , 2009Herz, , 2022Johnson, 2011). According to the circumplex model of affect (Barrett & Russell, 1998;Russell, 1980), emotions are distributed in a circular space along two independent dimensions: valence (pleasant-unpleasant) and arousal (level of activation from low to high).…”

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Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo

Baccarani,

Brochard

2023

Musicae Scientiae

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It has recently been shown that relaxing and stimulating odors distort time perception by slowing down or speeding up the pacemaker of the internal clock. Since individuals tend to prefer musical tempo at the rate of the pacemaker, we examined whether relaxing and stimulating ambient odors could bias tempo preference in a study in which the musical stimuli were unfamiliar pleasant musical excerpts. Participants listened to pairs of excerpts played at slightly different tempi and had to indicate which one they preferred. We hypothesized that participants exposed to a relaxing odor (strawberry) would prefer the slower excerpts while participants exposed to a stimulating odor (lemon) would prefer the faster excerpts. As expected, the findings showed that participants in the control (no odor) condition preferred the slower of the fast-tempo pairs of excerpts and the faster of the slow-tempo pairs, indicating a preference bias for moderate tempo. Preferences in both odor conditions differed significantly from those in the control condition such that no such preference bias was observed. There was an interaction between tempo and odor such that participants showed no preference for the slower of the fast-tempo pairs of excerpts in the presence of a lemon odor, and no preference for the faster of the slow-tempo pairs in the presence of a strawberry odor. To our knowledge, this is the first time it has been shown that odors can alter the rate of the pacemaker without participants being conscious of the presence of an olfactory stimulus in the environment.

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Olfaction and Health

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Endogenous mood state and hedonic responses to pleasant odors

Endogenous mood state and hedonic responses to pleasant odors

Relaxing and stimulating ambient odors influence preferences for musical tempo

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